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This page gives you access to all of RBA's daily news summaries (since April 13, 2006), 10 days at a time. The most recent are shown, or you can select a specific date to show (along with the previous 10 days). Prior to April 13, 2006 you can find weekly reviews, located in articles. | |||
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| Sunday 11th June 2023 | ||
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The highlight of the day was the return of the Least Tern to Little Tern colonies in County Dublin and later County Louth. Other discoveries included a Caspian Tern in Cleveland at Saltholme, a White-rumped Sandpiper in South Yorkshire at Hatfield Moors, a Black-headed Wagtail on the Western Isles on Lewis, a Ferruginous Duck in West Yorkshire at Swillington Ings, a Baltic Gull in Cheshire at Widnes, and Blyth's Reed Warblers on the Shetland Isles on Fair Isle and the Western Isles on North Uist. Rarities elswehere were the Broad-billed Sandpiper still on the Shetland Isles, Blue-winged Teal still in Cambridgeshire, American Black Tern in Northumberland, Great Reed Warblers singing in Cleveland and Norfolk, Bee-eaters in Kent and Suffolk, and Black-winged Stilts in Gloucestershire, Lincolnshire (6), Greater Manchester (2), and Norfolk. Scarcities included Woodchat Shrike (East Yorkshire), White-spotted Bluethroat (Gloucestershire), Common Rosefinch (Cumbria), Wryneck (Shetland), Purple Heron (Northamptonshire), Red-necked Phalarope (Aberdeenshire), Pectoral Sandpiper (Northumberland), American Wigeon (Argyll), Ring-necked Duck (Forth), Grey-headed Wagtail (Norfolk), two Red-backed Shrikes, three each of Golden Oriole and Glossy Ibis, five Night Herons, and seven Marsh Warblers. Significant late news concerned a Barolo Shearwater on Friday on Lundy, Devon. |
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| - Chris Batty, RBA | ||
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